Poetry
my ruins
Jerry Lieblich (they/them) plays in the borderlands of theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Plays include D Deb Debbie Deborah (Critic’s Pick: NY Times), Ghost Stories (Critic’s Pick: TimeOut NY), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera). Their poetry has appeared in Foglifter, SOLAR, Pomona Valley Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Works and Days. Jerry has held residencies at MadCowell, MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, Millay Arts, and UCROSS, and is a Helix Fellow with Yiddishkayt. MFA: Brooklyn College. www.thirdear.nyc, IG: @apophatic_attic.
Bliss as a Metaphor for the Catenary Curve
Michael T. Lawson studied poetry and biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a PhD in the latter and fostering a love of the former. His work has been published in Tar River Poetry, Ninth Letter, Nimrod International Journal, and Four Way Review, among others. He currently resides in Boston, MA, where he works as a data analyst.
Labor Day, 1961, Last Poolside Event
Among John Tabb DuVal’s awards for verse translation are a major NEA and two awards from the Avcademy of American Poets. His Song of Roland was a finalist for the PEN Translation Award in 2013. Fabliaux, Fair and Foul (translations of Medieval French comic verse tales) has been reissued twice and a reissue of From Adam to Adam: Seven Old French Plays is forthcoming.
essay on distance
Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet. Her debute poetry chapbook, INHERITANCE, was the winner of the 2020 Vella Prize and published with Paper Nautilus Press in 2021. Juliana’s work appears or is forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, The Chestnut Review, diode poetry journal, and other journals. She is a student at Harvard Law School, where she is a Presidential Public Service Fellow and an editor of the ,em.Harvard Law Review.
Alive in Ohio
Abby Wheeler lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a 2021 finalist for the Great Midwest Writing Contest, and has work published or forthcoming in SWWIM, The Free State Review and elsewhere. Her chapbook, In the Roots, is available from Finishing Line Press.
Confessional to Famous Iranian Pop Singer Dariush II
Darius Atefat-Peckham is an Iranian-American poet and essayist. His work has appeared in Indiana Review, Barrow Street, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, Brevity, Crab Orchard Review and elsewhere. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including My Shadow is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press). Atefat-Peckham lives in Huntington, West Virginia and studies Creative Writing at Harvard College.
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20 Ways to Start a Poem by Rebecca Danelly
Rebecca Danelly holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and is currently co-editor of poetry at “table//Feast Mag.” Her poems have been published in the anthology, Chaos, Dive, Reunion by Mutabilis Press, Defunkt Magazine, and in numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a mother and grandmother, a United States Air Force veteran, and teaches college writing in Houston on former Akokisa, Atakapa, Karankawa, and Sana land where she
resides with her partner, Jeremy, and Daisy, the oversized chihuahua.
The Judas Tree
Erica Wright is the author of seven books, including the poetry collection All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (Black Lawrence Press) and the essay collection Snake (Bloomsbury). She was the poetry editor of Guernica for more than a decade.
If I Erase My Body
Jennifer Whalen (she/her) is a poet & educator from the Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati, Ohio area. She is the author of the poetry collection Eveningful (2024), which was selected by Rick Barot as the winner of the 2022 Lightscatter Press Prize. Her poems can be found in Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Southern Indiana Review, New South, Glass: A Journal for Poetry, The Boiler, & elsewhere. She previously served as writer-in-residence at Texas State University’s Clark House and currently teaches English at the University of Illinois Springfield.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be the Culmination of Things I Took for Granted
Hiba Tahir is a YA author and 2022 graduate of the University of Arkansas MFA, where she received the Carolyn Walton Cole Endowment Fund, the J. Chester and Freda S. Johnson Graduate Fellowship, and the James T. Whitehead Award. She is a 2020 recipient of an Artists 360 Grant from Mid-America Arts Alliance and a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.
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